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Too busy making plans to watch–or ignore–Sunday’s Super Bowl to keep up to the minute on Crave? Here’s a quick rundown of some of the weird, wonderful, and otherwise Crave-worthy stories we had our eye on this week.

• Rock-a-Bye Baby BlackBerry…

A smartphone for tots. …

OK, so Dell and Apple have been locked in a marketing war for years. Dell has long been considered the default PC for enterprise, while Apple has positioned itself as the most influential consumer computer brand in the world. But Apple has branched out from computing with the iPod and, …

Video: Super Bowl: Microsoft Surface helps police monitor security

Tampa authorities will utilize Microsoft’s Surface touch-screen device, along with other technologies, as part of Super Bowl Sunday security, according to Ars Technica.

For well over a year now, more than 60 federal, state, regional, local, and municipal authorities have …

Nokia 2700

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Apparently, Nokia just can’t wait for the GSMA World Congress next month. On Thursday, the Finns introduced three new phones: the 2700 Classic, the 6303 Classic, and the 6700 Classic. The three GSM models all sport candy bar designs, but vary a bit in functionality.
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The C510 is now official.

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Three weeks after it made its world debut at CES, the Sony Ericsson C510 Cyber-shot has passed through the gates of the Federal Communications Commission. It was a rather quiet week otherwise, except for a whole lot of Huawei models.
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The SoliCharger comes in two colors to fit with the colors of your iPhone 3G.

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If you own an iPhone 3G, you know how the 3G and GPS features eat battery life. The Mophie juice pack is the first accessory I got for mine. I liked it, but …

We’ve been hearing rumors of a Dell smartphone for a while now, but Thursday, The Wall Street Journal gave more shape to the speculation with a report that the PC maker “has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office …

Helio Ocean 2: Possibly on its way soon.

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It appears that the much-awaited sequel to the Helio Ocean has finally surfaced…or at least its photos have, anyway.

MobileCrunch posted some pics of the Ocean 2’s unboxing, and Engadget Mobile mentioned that Virgin has released a press release …

What will Apple's next iPhone look like? The only changes might be under the hood.

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As might be expected, it doesn’t seem that the iPhone 3G will be Apple’s last iPhone.

MacRumors has discovered code inside the OS X 2.2.1 firmware released earlier this week …

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I just got my digital TV converter box. I’m planning on dumping Comcast, and this is the first step. The next is either DSL or Clearwire or something–anything–but the “traffic shaping” cable giant’s offers. In shopping around, I’ve noticed that many broadband sellers (Comcast included) are offering a special price and, if you sign up for a two-year contract, the ability to lock that price in for life.

Sounds good, right? $29.99 for broadband, from now till you switch carriers, even if their prices go up. The thing is, it’s not a great deal.
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